City awards vendor contracts

The Alamogordo City Commission approved contracts with five vendors that will supply the city's senior citizens center with food items for six months.

The contracts were approved last week as part of the commission's consent agenda, which means the elective body considers the matter routine and enacts it with one blanket vote along with unrelated matters.

The vendors will supply the center with everything from gravy mix and tartar sauce to instant rice and apple sauce.

A commission agenda report shows the contracts worth about $207,000 will supply the Alamo Senior Center's nutrition program between October and April.

Prices Creameries received a contract worth $11,000 to supply the center with dairy products, with more than $10,000 of that going toward different kinds of milk, documents show.

Shamrock and Sysco received the contracts worth the most at about $82,000 and $90,000, respectively. Shamrock will supply 127 different items while Sysco will provide 71.

Zanios/Labatts Foods also won a contract worth about $22,000.

The lowest contract, worth about $850, was awarded to Bernard Foods to supply chicken and beef base.

According to city records, the Alamo Senior Center, located at 2201 Puerto Rico, provides various services -- including meals -- to people over the age of 60 and is administered by the New Mexico Aging and Long Term Services Department.

The department was crated in 2004 to address the needs of a "burgeoning older population," and serves about 4,200 people per month, documents show.

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